History Headscratchers / TheElderScrollsVSkyrim

* Why does everyone have lockpicks? From feeble old ladies to captains of industry, virtually everyone has a lockpick on their person, in their chests or cupboards, or somewhere else in their house. Is everyone that afraid of locking themselves out of things?

*** Maybe they're going by the logic of "If we keep their money, they can't use it against us"? Not the most likely tactic for Falmer, I know, but hurting the economy is one way to destroy the surface world.

** On the same note, the Falmer that you loot almost always carry Septims. Why? If their goal is to destroy the surface culture, then they certainly wouldn't want to trade with it. What use could they possibly have for surface currency?

** On the same note, why do the Falmer carry Septims? If their goal is to destroy the surface culture, then they certainly wouldn't want to trade with it. What use could they possibly have for surface currency?

** The game probably just uses the Septim design because it's the standard currency of the realm. Inventory would probably get a bit clunky if one's gold was seperated into "Imperial Septims", "Draconic currency", and lord knows what else. It would also beg the question of the legitimacy of the currency, exchange rates, the "collector's value" both in-universe and out... better to just use the most common design as the default image. It's not like every piece of iron armour across the land is perfectly identical either.

* Whie we're on the subject of Alduin,What exactly is his goal? To elababorate, they pretty much set out two paths a: he will kill devour souls, and go to sovengarde, devour souls of the dead to gain incredible power, and use it to bring about the apocalypse, destroying Tamriel to make way for the next world. or b: I think they said that the first dragon war was a dragon crusade similar in nature to the (tamerilic) modern Thalmor, i.e. dragons are the superior race, and deserve to be kings of the world, with everyone else as slaves. So which is it? destroy world or enslave it? Also, [[The Elder Scrolls Wiki http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Alduin]] claims that when alduin returns in skyrim, he summons with him the souls of dead nords and cloaked said souls in the flesh forms of dragons. where in the name of Talos did they get that idea? I would think that even if you cloaked the soul of a mortal human in the flesh of a dragon, it would radically different from an actual dragon, since a mortal soul probably wouldn't have innate knowledge of dragon shout language.

** Let me get this straight. As long as you die in honorable battle, you go to heaven? WHat if you had the battle ethic of a nord, and spent your spare time as a mass murdering, child molesting, universally hated villain? Would you still go to sovengarde when you died just to provide one for the good nordic heroes with an enemy to play at war withand keep their skills sharp? I mean come on! what if my daughter was imprisoned, raped and executed by king olaf, I died a valiant death, and go to sovengarde, and a couple of decades or something later, olaf turns up in sovengarde, having died a warrior's death, and spends the rest of eternity in paridise, after what He did?

* Self contraction here. during your introduction to the bard's college, you have to reinstate a festival celebrating the brutal execution of an ancient nord tyrant. That story is backed up by the cave with the Bard ghost where you find Olafs lost verse. according to said passage, the guy was ten different kinds of douchebag. BUT the loading screen calls olaf a hero, since he is the hero from castle dragonreach's name origin. and to tople it all off, You meet him in in the hall of Valor in sovengarde! (Nord Heaven) what gives?

** True, he doesn't really look all that different from other dragons I'll giveyou that, but as I said, knows that the only people who have a snowballs chance in hell of stopping him already knows who he is, so whats to stop him from invoking his identity to instill fear. Being chased by an unstoppable mythic killing machine scary. Being chased by the most powerful and evil king of unstoppable mythic killing machines is about ten times worse.

** How is anyone going to tell the difference between Alduin and any other dragon? He doesn't look ''that'' different compared with other dragons, especially when everyone who he's attacking is going to have their hands full simply fighting back or fleeing and won't have time to notice the minute differences between him and other dragons and compare them to the limited legendary lore. The only ones who could tell the difference between Alduin and any other dragon would be learned sages or wizards.

** Assuming Sithis doesn't immediately annihilate your soul upon death, Nocturnal would probably barter her stake to Hircine for something or other.

* All gold coins still bear the face of Tiber Septim on the coin, even though the Septim dynasty is over with. Even the coins found laying about in ancient nordic ruins that haven't been occupied since before Tiber's time have his face on them.

*** To underline the above: Ysgramor lived in the late Merethic Era. Skyrim takes place nearly four and a half millenia since the Merethic Era. Since Sovngarde isn't a place living people generally get to visit, why would the Nords have a good idea about how Ysgramor looked?

** One is a statue. One is the real person.

* Bit of a minor thing, but did anyone else notice how incredibly different the spirit of Ysgramor seems in sovengarde from the ridiculously Badass statue from the loading screens. Why?

* Self contraction here. during your introduction to the bard's college, you have to reinstate a festival celebrating the brutal execution of an ancient nord tyrant. That story is backed up by the cave with the Bard ghost where you find Olafs lost verse. according to said passage, the guy was ten different kinds of douchebag. BUT the loading screen calls olaf a hero, since he is the hero from castle dragonreach's name origin. and to tople it all off, You meet him in in the hall of Valor in sovengarde! (Nord Heaven) what gives?

* Self contraction here. during your introduction to the bard's college, you have to reinstate a festival celebrating the brutal execution of an ancient nord tyrant. That story is backed up by the cave with the Bard ghost where you find Olafs lost verse. according to said passage, the guy was ten different kinds of douchebag. BUT the loading screen calls olaf a hero, since he is the hero from castle dragonreach's name origin. and to tople it all off, You meet in in the hall of Valor in sovengarde! what gives?

** The player is the Shezzarine. He can only exist in Mundus because that's where his heart is.

** Obviously, they settle things in the manner of all supernatural beings-at-odds: they play poker.

* It's heavily implied that all Dark Brotherhood members serve Sithis after death. The Thieves Guild questline involves Nocturnal getting claim to your soul as well. Additionally, Hircine gets the souls of deceased werewolves. So... what happens when the lycanthropic Listener and Agent of Nocturnal kicks the bucket?

** Not necessarily a draconic name. Auriel doesn't seem to be, after all, and there is always Alkosh to consider.

* All draconic names consist of three syllables: each syllable a single word. "Odahviig" is "Snow Hunter Wing," Alduin is "Destroyer Devour Master," and so forth. What is "Akatosh?"